Alfred Döblin in Berlin Alexanderplatz Romanında Montaj Tekniği ve İşlevi

Abstract

This article focuses primarily on three areas: First the article deals with Alfred Döblin s concept of thenovel and the function of the montage technique from his perspective. Secondly, the article drawsattention to the fact that Alfred Döblin, a neurologist by profession, who later dedicated himselfexclusively to his writing, used the montage technique intensively in his great city novel BerlinAlexanderplatz. The technique, which operates at different levels of language, narrative technique andplot, is demonstrated by selected examples from the novel. In each case the intention of the novelist isdiscussed. The article considers whether individual accumulating elements accord with the wholeness ofthe novel, and if so, how this interesting synthesis occurs. The final focus is on his efforts to use themontage technique to portray the big city. In the case of Berlin Alexanderplatz, this effort ultimately endswith a big city epic. In this study, we consider how Döblin used the montage technique in BerlinAlexanderplatz, which was central, and new for German literature at that time. Additionally, narrativestyles and techniques as parables, paraboles, sound associations, word and rhyme repetition and relevantpassages are supported by quotations from the novel